History of art Books
MP-ZOP Zophorus Books The Architecture of Lucknow and Oudh 17221856
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Frye Art Museum The Unicorn Incorporated
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword expanding the now: soul urges while listening to a Curtis Barnes / Ishmael Butler In Conversation / Curtis R. Barnes -Afro American Journal 1971 -Paintings 1971-2002 -Conte Drawings 1975-1979 -Street Life 1975-1985 -Mask 1982-1989 -Vigilante 1985-1988 -Saturday Afternoon at the Movies 1985-1995 -Urban Gargoyle 1987-1997 -Television in the Sky 1984-Present -Audio Talisman 1996-2005 -Sculpture 1970-1975 -The Omowale Mural 1971-1974 "Black Art by and for the Black Community": The Omowale Legacy / Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker Notes
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Whale & Star Press Unbroken Poetry
Book SynopsisDrawing from the artist's sketchbooks, personal interviews with the artist and the works of Martinez Celaya, the author describes his impetus and methods in a conceptual volume of exceptional beauty and voice.
£28.80
Whale & Star Press The Conversations
Book SynopsisIn the mid-1990s philosopher and cultural critic Richard Whittaker founded the art journal Works and Conversations to fill a gap in the contemporary discourse. Conversations with important artists have played a central role in the magazine. This work brings together what Whittaker considers the sixteen most relevant interviews.
£14.24
Swan Isle Press Sebastians Arrows
Book SynopsisThe volume chronicles how in their poetic skirmishes they sharpened and shaped each other's work - Garcia Lorca defending his verses of absence and elegy and his love of tradition while Dali argued for his theories of "Clarity" and "Holy Objectivity" and the unsettling logic of Surrealism.
£28.50
Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art Fresh
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgments Reinvigorated Realms Daniel Arsham Berlinde de Bruyckere Gorden Cheung Xiaoqing (Jenny) Ding Angelo Filomeno Joyce Korotkin Andrea Lehmann Hanna Liden Takagi Masakatsu and Saeko Takagi Debora Moore Lori Nix Hans Op de Beeck Ran Ortner Marc Swanson
£24.54
Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art Preston Singletary
Book SynopsisThe story Raven and the Box of Daylight, which tells how Raven transformed the world and brought light to the people by releasing the stars, moon, and sun, holds great significance to the Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. A new body of work by artist Preston Singletary (American, born 1963) will immerse readers in Tlingit traditions by telling this story through his monumental glass works and installations. Primarily known for his celebration of Tlingit art and design, Singletary will explore new ways of working with glass inspired by Tlingit design principles. Tlingit objects were traditionally used to show wealth and tell stories by representing elements of the natural world, as well as the histories of individual families. By drawing upon this tradition, Singletary's art creates a unique theatrical atmosphere, in which the pieces follow and enhance a narrative. This book includes texts that place Singletary's work within the wider histories of both glass art and nativ
£37.05
Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art René Lalique
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Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. Material Choices
Book SynopsisPresents eight essays documenting the state of bast and leaf fibre weaving traditions in Vietnam, Borneo, Korea, Burma, Okinawa, the Philippines, Japan, and Micronesia. This book examines processes that have nurtured or buffeted attempts to preserve or revive the production of these textiles. It is illustrated with colour photographs.Trade Review"This book goes on a voyage through a variety of thought-provoking issues relating to marginal fibre artefacts across the remote areas of the Asia-Pacific region…. The anthropological approaches adopted in this book have much to offer textile and dress historians seeking broader perspectives in order to understand objects. In addition, this volume is lavishly illustrated throughout, providing inspiration for anyone with an interest in the processes of fibre production as wel as the woven textiles they create." * Textile History *"Material Choices is another fine contribution to the proliferating field of material culture studies. It is an ideal textual model of how theoretical issues are enriched when they organically arise from creative action, the meaning and behavior around tangible objects, and global socio-political contexts." * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction: Considering Bast and Leaf Fiber Textiles in a Globalized Context / B. Lynne Milgram and Roy W. Hamilton 1) Bast and Leaf Fibers in the Asia-Pacific Region: An Overview / Roy W. Hamilton 2) Hemp Textiles of the Hmong in Vietnam / Tran Thi Thu Thuy 3) Ulap Doyo: Woven Fibers of East Kalimantan / Elizabeth Oley 4) Sambe: Korean Hemp Fabrics / Bu-ja Koh 5) Stemming from the Lotus: Sacred Robes for Buddhist Monks / Sylvia Fraser-Lu and Ma Thanegi 6) Bashofu, The Mingei Movement and the Creation of a New Okinawa / Amanda Meyer Stinchecum 7) Recrafting Tradition and Livelihood: Women and Bast Fiber Textiles in the Upland Philippines / B Lynne Milgram 8) Preserving Echigo Jofu and Nara Sarashi: Issues in Contemporary Bast Fiber Textile Production / Melissa M. Rinne 9) Reviving the Sacred Machi: A Chiefly Weaving from Fais Island, Micronesia / Donald H. Rubenstein and Sophiano Limol Notes to the Text Reverences Cited Contributors Index
£30.93
The Mint Museums From New York to Corrymore
Book SynopsisEssays explore Henri's familiarity with Irish subjects and culture prior to his first trip to Ireland, and focus on the striking portraits that he created during his Irish sojourns
£25.19
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library Leaves from Paradise
Book SynopsisA pair of leaves recently acquired by Houghton Library presents an opportunity to examine the illuminated sequence composed in honor of John the Evangelist. The richly decorated fragments promise to transform our understanding of the special place of Christ’s “beloved disciple” in 14th-century art, liturgy, theology, and mysticism.
£26.96
MV - University of Washington Press Central Nigeria Unmasked Arts of the Benue River
Book SynopsisBrings together figurative wood sculptures and ceramic vessels, masks, and elaborate bronze and iron regalia selected to exemplify important typologies within the Benue River ValleyTrade Review". . . to be enjoyed when you are awake and concentrating and hungry for information about some of the strangest and most beautiful images you'll ever see." -- Holland Cotter * The New York Times *Table of ContentsForewords--Marla C. Berns and Stephane Martin; A Note from the Director of Museums, National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria--Nath Mayo Adediran; Preface--Marla C. Berns Introduction: Central Nigeria Unmasked--Marla C. Berns and Richard Fardon Part 1 The Lower Benue: Fluid Artistic Identities 1 Introduction: Reimagining Lower Benue Art History --Sidney Littlefield Kasfir; 2 Idoma Art and the Intersection of Benue Histories and Geographies --Sidney Littlefield Kasfir; Interleaf A Idoma and Tiv Artists--Sidney Littlefield Kasfir; Interleaf B Umale Oganegi, Igala Artist--Susan Picton; 3 The Ancestral Masquerade: A Paradigm of Benue Valley Art History --Sidney Littlefield Kasfir A. The Igala Egwu Afia--John Boston; B. Ebira Masquerade and Its Histories--John Picton; C. Ndako Gboya Masquerades of the Nupe--Constanze Weise; D. Power and Gender in the History of Egungun--John C. Willis; E. Dead Fathers of Okpella--Jean Borgatti; 4 Ebira and the Niger-Benue Confluence: Material Culture and Masquerade; Artifact and Identity Revisited--John Picton; 5 Igala Masquerades and Figure Sculpture--John Boston; 6 Lost-Wax Casting along the Benue--Nancy Neaher Maas; Interleaf C A Note on the "Igala" Bell--Nancy Neaher Maas; Interleaf D A Note on Idoma Bells and Smoking Pipes--Sidney Littlefield Kasfir Part 2 The Middle Benue: Visual Resemblances, Connected Histories 7 Introduction: The Middle Benue--Richard Fardon; 8 The Quick and the Dead: Versatile Wooden Figures from the Middle Benue--Richard Fardon; Interleaf E Wurbo Jukun Sculpture from the Taraba and Wase River Valleys --Marla C. Berns; 9 A Memoir: The Jukun of the Middle Benue with a Brief Entry on the Goemai--Arnold Rubin; 10 Hybrids: Theranthropic Horizontal Masquerades from the Middle Benue--Richard Fardon; Interleaf F Mining the Rubin Archive: Mid-Twentieth-Century Documentation of Two Mumuye Masquerades--Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi; 11 Seen or Heard? Masquerades That Cry and Figures That Talk among the Mumuye--Mette Bovin; Interleaf G Heavy Metal: The Prestige of Iron in the Middle Benue --Richard Fardon; 12 Kantana, Kulere, and Their Neighbors South of the Jos Plateau --Barbara Frank; Interleaf H A Myriad of Mangam Masks--Marla C. Berns; 13 Embodiments Large and Small: Sacred Wood Sculpture of the Wurkun and Bikwin--Joerg Adelberger; 14 Enigmatic Embodiments: Vertical Masks in Cross-Cultural Perspective--Marla C. Berns Part 3 The Upper Benue: Expressive and Ritual Capacities of Clay 15 Introduction to Upper Benue Arts--Marla C. Berns; 16 Modeling Therapies: Vessels for Healing and Protection in the Western Gongola Valley--Marla C. Berns; 17 Containing Power: Identities in Clay in the Eastern Gongola Valley, the Ga'anda--Marla C. Berns; 18 Containing Power: Identities in Clay in the Eastern Gongola Valley, the 'Bena, Yungur, and Dera--Marla C. Berns; Interleaf I Vestiges in Wood: Ancestor Sculptures of the Eastern Gongola Valley --Marla C. Berns Epilogue Making the Market for Benue Arts: Notes on the French Connection --Helene Joubert Notes to the Text; References Cited; Index; Contributors
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Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. Order and Disorder
Book SynopsisConsiders the cross-cultural context and collaborative nature of Boetti's iconic artworksTrade Review"The collaborative nature of these pieces places them at an intersection of Central Asian craft traditions and mid-to-late 20th century 'high art,' and this volume . . . is an excellent exploration of the artistic process and final works." * Publishers Weekly *
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Whale & Star Press The Files
Book SynopsisA collection of documents following the long and often controversial career of Art & Text, one of the landmark contemporary art magazines of the 1980s and 1990s. This book offers an account of the advantages and pitfalls of publishing an art magazine.Table of ContentsForeword : The Ampersand Years (Ross Chambers) Introduction: Explicit Content, The Early Issues (Robert McKenzie) I. Torsos in a Publisher’s Gallery: An Open Letter (Paul Foss) II. Producing the Line (Paul Foss interviewed by Rob McKenzie) III. Peripheral Burnout (Paul Foss interviewed by Rex Butler) VI. Woes of the Pharisees (Paul Foss interviewed by Simon Rees)
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Whale & Star Press Alchemy of Light
Book SynopsisOffers an intimate look at the aesthetic world Mary Conover forms from the disparate influences of her life, the Jungian heritage, and the ineffable presence of the sea. The book explores the relationship between the wild and empty places where Conover works and her ideas about the world and her place in it.
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The Trout Gallery Picasso and the Circus
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the circus and related spectacles in fin-de-siecle Paris, and how they were interpreted by print arts of the era
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Support Networks
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The University of Chicago Press Institutions and Imaginaries
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Rubin Museum of Art Mirror of the Buddha
Book SynopsisInvestigates painted portraits of early Tibetan teachers
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Rubin Museum of Art Painting Traditions of the Drigung Kagyu School
Book SynopsisThough the Drigung Kagyu was one of the most prominent and powerful schools of Tibetan Buddhism during its early period (12th - 14th century), its art is still relatively poorly known, even among Tibetans. With its mother monastery destroyed twice, once in the late 13th century and again during the Great Cultural Revolution, much of the art was lost or dispersed. The iconography of the Drigung School is examined with regard to its three main periods - early, middle, and late - in combination with the distinctive influences of the Sharri, Khyenri, and Driri styles. The book aims elucidate to the painting traditions of the Drigung Kagyu School and investigate lineage depictions and methods of dating, while referring to previously overlooked Tibetan sources, both ancient and modern. The publication and related exhibition also explores the beneficial quality ascribed to the works of art and the elements they contain.Trade Review"In this fifth volume of his landmark "Masterworks of Tibetan Painting" series, Jackson continues patiently and systematically to lay the groundwork for a new art history of Tibetan painting—one more firmly supported by specifics of provenance, subject, and style." * Choice *Table of ContentsDirector's Statement Foreword Preface Introduction: The Drigung Kagyu Maps 1. Drigung Thel's Branches and Main Surviving Mural Sites 2. Early Research on Drigung Kagyu Art 3. Recent Research on Drigung Kagyu Painting 4. Written Sources 5. Early Drigung Kagyu Painting 6. Paintings from the Middle Period of Drigung Kagyu Art 7. Full-color Paintings of Peaceful Dieties in the Drigung Style 8. Paintings of Semiwrathful and Wrathful Deities in the Drigung Style 9. Recent Mural Sites in Lamayuru and Phyang 10. Three Artists in Drigung Thel Monasteries of Ladakh in the Twentieth Century 11. Beneficial to See: Early Drigung Painting / Christian Luczanits 12. The Elusive Lady to Nanam: An Introduction to the Protectress Achi Chokyi Drolma / Kristen Muldowney Roberts Appendix A. The Main Lineage of Drigung Appendix B. The Hierarchs of Drigung with Contemporary Head Lamas of Kailash and Ladakh, and Kings of Ladakh Appendix C. Monasteries of the Drigung Kagyu Notes Bibliography Index
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Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. In Extremis
Book SynopsisExamines the striking disjunction between social collapse and artistic flourescence in twenty-first century HaitiTrade Review"There is a depth and richness . . . that is still missing from Haiti's coverage and representation in the mainstream press. Support these endeavors." * The Public Archive *"Almost every page of the book delivers verbal, visual and moral shocks, sharp charges of a spiritual vitality generated by aggressive resistance to annihilation." * International Herald Tribune *
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Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. Light and Shadows
Book SynopsisHighlights the 2,700-year history of Jews in IranTrade Review"The book is a sumptuous and illuminating work of history." -- Jonathan Kirsch * The Jewish Journal *
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Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners at the Margins
Book SynopsisThe margins of the Americas-borders that are at once physical and societal-engender sacred figures who walk the fine line between sinfulness and sanctity. In worship and artistic representation alike, these entities reflect and impact the experiences of those who regularly struggle with harsh and frequently dangerous economic, political, legal, geographic, gender, and racial realities. In this volume, Patrick A. Polk and his fellow authors examine a series ofcrucial, and often controversial, divine beings from Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Argentina, and the United States. They also find fascinating parallels between the lives and acts of these holy ones and those who have been formally sanctioned by the Catholic Church, revealing the peculiar interrelationship of sin to sanctity. Featured are numerous illustrations of the works of artists who interpret official and unofficial saints, folk heroes turned supernatural intercessors. The broad range of objects considered, from pop culture to
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DePaul University Art Museum Matt Siber Idol Structures Matt Siber
Book SynopsisIdol Structures accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum of recent photographs and sculptures by Chicago-based artist Matt Siber, whose work explores the systems of corporate and mass-media communication that permeate the urban landscape. Instead of focusing on the information itself, Siber emphasizes the physical infrastructure of these systems. Photographs of the narrow edges of signs, sculptures of billboard ads hanging so loosely that their text is obscured in the folds, and other unique treatments of promotional materials distort and subvert the intended messages. The artist's deconstruction of such commercial efforts reveals an element of communication meant to remain invisible and subservient to image, text, and graphics. By highlighting the everyday objects used to persuade and influence, Siber's art undermines these communication systems' ability to do precisely what they were intended to do.
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DePaul University Art Museum Out of Easy Reach
Book SynopsisCountering conventional accounts of art history, which have often overlooked the artistic contributions of women of color, the exhibition Out of Easy Reach presents the work of twenty-four US-based, female-identifying artists from the black and Latina diasporas. The exhibition proposes myriad ways that artists are employing abstraction as a tool to explore histories both personal and universal, with focuses on mapping, migration, archives, landscape, vernacular culture, language, and the body. This catalogwhich accompanies an exhibition opening in April 2018 at the DePaul Art Museum, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Stony Island Arts Bankincludes full-color plates of the works on view; commissioned essays by exhibition curator Allison Glenn, and Cameron Shaw, executive director and founding editor of Pelican Bomb; and short-form contributions about each artist featured in the exhibition written by invited scholars, curators, writers, and artists.
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Books & Projects Visions from the Forest
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Fowler Museum At Ucla Dressed with Distinction
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Les Enluminures, Limited Cycles of Life Rings From The Benjamin Zucker Family Collection
Book SynopsisAn unparalleled collection of rings dating from the 3rd to the 19th century, presented not chronologically but rather grouped into timeless themes - birth, love, betrothal, marriage, mourning and death - thereby achieving greater insight about the beliefs , sentiments, status, and practices of their former owners.
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DePaul University Art Museum Some Kind of Duty
Book SynopsisSome Kind of Duty features all new handmade weavings by Chicago-based artist Karolina Gnatowski, known as kg. In monumental and small-scale tapestries, kg, anAmerican artist who was born in Poland incorporates references ranging from Polish immigration, badminton, Jim Morrison, and feminist fiber artists to addiction, mourning, and their pet. The artist's keen attention to the details of life's coincidences and moments of intersection finds a fitting form in their reverence for the history of tapestry weaving, and the evidence of everyday life incorporated into the artist's work makes their weavings an offering to those both living and dead. This catalog accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum, and it features full-color plates of the works on view, an interview between the artist and DPAM Director and Chief Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm, an essay by K. L. H. Wells, assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee, and poems
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University of Washington Press James Mongrain in the George R. Stroemple
Book SynopsisThe Stroemple Collection boasts more than five hundred vintage Venetian vessels that illustrate the height of Venetian glassblowing during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 2012, George Stroemple commissioned James MongrainDale Chihuly's current gaffer and an exceptional glass artistto make a series of ten vessels to replicate major examples of vintage Venetian glass in the Stroemple Collection. The finished pieces exemplify Mongrain's extraordinary ability to re-create traditional Venetian mastery in glass. Since then, the Stroemple Collection has commissioned Mongrain to make more series, all based on the historic works in the Stroemple Collection. For these, Mongrain uses traditional techniques and imagery to reimagine the Venetian style, working on a large scale to create monumental and sculptural pieces that reference tradition but are firmly within contemporary glassmaking. This book documents each of the James Mongrain commissions and will also include various exampl
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Green Lantern Press Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect
Book SynopsisA collaboration of artists and writers commemorates a powerful symbol for social justice and freedom on Chicago’s South Side The Wall of Respect, a work of public art created in 1967 at the corner of Forty-third Street and Langley Avenue on Chicago’s South Side, depicted Black leaders in music,literature, politics, and sports. The Wall sparked a nationwide mural movement, provided a platform for community engagement, and was a foundational work of the Black Arts Movement. There is no longer any physical indication of its existence, but it still needs to be remembered. Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect argues against making a monument of it, or of other historically significant events, in the formal language of grandness and permanence. Instead, Romi Crawford proposes the concept of “fleeting monuments,” asking a range of artists and writers to realize antiheroic, nonstatic, and impermanent strategies for commemoration
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University of Washington Press Myrlande Constant The Work of Radiance
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Marquand Michael Taylor Traversing Parallels
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University of Washington Press Full Light and Perfect Shadow
Book SynopsisCelebrates the work of an influential Asian American photographerThis is the first study of the work of Chao-Chen Yang (19091969), an important Seattle photographer who gained national prominence in the mid-twentieth century. Born in Hangzhou, China, Yang received his art training at the University of Hsin-Hwa in Shanghai. After graduating, he became art director for the Government Institute of Nanking. In 1933 he moved to Chicago as chancellor of the Chinese Consulate and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. Initially trained as a painter, he later used photography as his main medium for artistic expression. In 1938 Yang was transferred to Seattle as chancellor of the Chinese Consulate and became actively involved with the Seattle Photographic Society. He was also an influential art and photography instructor and worked tirelessly to advance Chinese culture in the United States. Yang won numerous awards in important photography salons and became a Fellow of the Photographic SocietTrade Review"Full Light and Perfect Shadow is respectful and successfully conveys its reverence toward the artist, his family, and his collaborators. There is an obvious hand of tenderness throughout the exhibit . . . and through the photography book of the same name." * International Examiner *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Guide to EighteenthCentury Art
Book SynopsisA Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them.Table of ContentsList of Figures vi Acknowledgments x Companion Website xi Introduction: Style, Society, Modernity 1 1 Institutional Hierarchies: Art and Craft 19 2 Genres and Contested Hierarchies 56 3 Markets, Publics, Expert Opinions 122 4 Taste, Criticism and Journalism 189 5 Seeking a Moral Order: The Choice between Virtue and Pleasure 205 Conclusion 239 References 240 Index 260
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Guide to EighteenthCentury Art
Book SynopsisA Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them. Covers both artistic developments and critical approaches to the period by leading contemporary scholars Uses an innovative framework to emphasize the roles of tradition, modernity, and hierarchy in the production of artistic works of the period Reveals the practical issues connected with the production, sale, public and private display of art of the period Assesses eighteenth-century art's contribution to what we now refer to as modernity' Includes numerous illustrations, and is accompanied by online resources examining art produced outside Europe and its relationship with the West, along with other useful resources Table of ContentsList of Figures vi Acknowledgments x Companion Website xi Introduction: Style, Society, Modernity 1 1 Institutional Hierarchies: Art and Craft 19 2 Genres and Contested Hierarchies 56 3 Markets, Publics, Expert Opinions 122 4 Taste, Criticism and Journalism 189 5 Seeking a Moral Order: The Choice between Virtue and Pleasure 205 Conclusion 239 References 240 Index 260
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Clever Object
Book SynopsisThe Clever Object presents a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways objects materialise, embody, or negotiate various forms of intelligence, revealing the use of the idea of the clever object as an analytic tool of art-historical interpretation.Table of Contents6 Notes on Contributors 8 Chapter 1 The Clever Object: Three Pavilions, Three Loggias, and a Planetarium Matthew C. Hunter and Francesco Lucchini 32 Chapter 2 Aleardino’s Glass Francesco Lucchini 52 Chapter 3 Object, Image, Cleverness: The Lienzo de Tlaxcala Byron Ellsworth Hamann 80 Chapter 4 Picture, Object, Puzzle, Prompter: Devilish Cleverness in Restoration London Matthew C. Hunter 102 Chapter 5 Screen Wise, Screen Play: Jacques de Lajoue and the Ruses of Rococo Katie Scott 142 Chapter 6 William Morris’s Tapestry: Metamorphosis and Prophecy in The Woodpecker Caroline Arscott 160 Chapter 7 Fischli and Weiss’s Equilibre/Quiet Afternoon (1984-5) Rachel Wells 174 Chapter 8 Clever Objects – Tell-Tale Objects Simon Starling in conversation with Christiane Rekade 186 Chapter 9 Fragments of Great Visions Ian Kiaer in conversation with Christiane Rekade 198 Chapter 10 Response: Clever Fetishists Roman Frigg 204 Chapter 11 Response: Playing Dumb Glenn Adamson 211 Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Theorizing Imitation in the Visual Arts
Book SynopsisThe theory and practice of imitation has long been central to the construction of art and yet imitation is still frequently confused with copying. Theorizing Imitation in the Visual Arts challenges this prejudice by revealing the ubiquity of the practice across cultures and geographical borders. This fascinating collection of original essays has been compiled by a group of leading scholars Challenges the prejudice of imitation in art by bringing to bear a perspective that reveals the ubiquity of the practice of imitation across cultural and geographical borders Brings light to a broad range of areas, some of which have been little researched in the past Table of Contents6 Notes on Contributors 8 Chapter 1 Why Imitation, and Why Global?Paul Duro 30 Chapter 2 Post-Western Poetics: Postmodern Appropriation Art in AustraliaIan McLean 50 Chapter 3 Essentially the Same: Eduardo Costa’s Minimal Differences and Latin American ConceptualismPatrick Greaney 68 Chapter 4 Like Father, Like Son: Bernini’s Filial Imitation of MichelangeloCarolina Mangone 90 Chapter 5 Navajo Sandpainting in the Age of Cross-Cultural ReplicationJanet Catherine Berlo 110 Chapter 6 Copying and Theory in Edo-Period Japan (1615-1868)Kazuko Kameda-Madar 130 Chapter 7 Original Imitations for Sale: Dafen and Artistic CommodificationVivian Li 146 Chapter 8 The Temporal Logic of Citation in Chinese PaintingMartin J. Powers 166 Chapter 9 IngeminationRichard Shiff 186 Chapter 10 The Image Valued ‘As Found’ and the Reconfiguring of Mimesis in Post-War ArtAlex Potts 208 Chapter 11 History Lessons: Imitation, Work and the Temporality of Contemporary ArtJonathan Bordo 229 Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Art History in a Global Context
Book SynopsisPresents a clear and comprehensive introduction to the evolving discipline of global art studies This volume examines how art historians, critics, and artists revisit art from ancient times through to the early modern period as well as the ways in which contemporary objects are approached through the lens of global contact, exchange, networks, and trade routes. It assists students who actively seek to understand global art history and the discipline beyond the founding Western canons. The first section of Art History in a Global Context: Methods, Themes and Approaches explores how themes related to globalization are framing the creation, circulation, reception, and study of art today. The second section examines how curators, scholars, artists, and critics have challenged the Eurocentric canon through works of art, writings, exhibitions, biennials, large-scale conferences, and the formation of global networks. The third section is designed to help studentTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I Themes in Global Art History 11 1 A Porous Iron Curtain: Artistic Contacts and Exchanges across the Eastern European Bloc during the Cold War (1960–1980) 13Cristian Nae 2 Environments and Sustainability 27Ann Albritton 3 Gender, Race, and Feminism: Specificity in a Global Context: The Case of Chicanas Latinas and Latin American Women Artists, 1960s–1980s 35Cecilia Fajardo-Hill Part II Global Art History in Practice/Praxis 55 4 Exhibitions and Biennials in a Global Context 57Ann Albritton 5 Global Art Histories and Museums 77Gwen Farrelly 6 Global Art History and its Asymmetries through Two Exhibitions: From The Global Contemporary to India and the World 87Parul Dave Mukherji Part III Global Art History and the Past 105 7 Rituals in Art 107Ann Albritton 8 Migration and Transnational Temporalities in the South Indian Diaspora 119Judy Peter 9 “A Global Learning for All”: Creative Pedagogy in Art History 139Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut and Sarena Abdullah Index 153
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Museum Theory
Book SynopsisMUSEUM THEORY EDITED BY ANDREA WITCOMB AND KYLIE MESSAGE Museum Theory offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and intellectual traditions. This volume describes and challenges previous ways of understanding museums and their relationship to society. Essays written by scholars from museology and other disciplines address theoretical reflexivity in the museum, exploring the contextual, theoretical, and pragmatic ways museums work, are understood, and are experienced. Organized around three themesThinking about Museums, Disciplines and Politics, and Theory from Practice/Practicing Theorythe text includes discussion and analysis of different kinds of museums from various, primarily contemporary, national and local contexts. Essays consider subjects including the nature of museums as institutions and their role in the public sphere, cutting-edge museum practice and their connections with current global concerns, and the links between museum studies and disciplines such as cultural studies, anthropology, and history.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Editors xiii General Editors xiv Contributors xv Acknowledgments xvii Editors’ Preface to Museum Theory and the International Handbooks of Museum Studies xix Introduction – Museum Theory: An Expanded Field xxviiAndrea Witcomb and Kylie Message Part I Thinking about Museums 1 1. Thinking (with) Museums: From Exhibitionary Complex to Governmental Assemblage 3Tony Bennett 2. Foucault and the Museum 21Kevin Hetherington 3. What, or Where, Is the (Museum) Object?: Colonial Encounters in Displayed Worlds of Things 41Sandra H. Dudley 4. Anarchical Artifacts: Museums as Sites for Radical Otherness 63Janice Baker 5. (Post‐) Cartographic Urges: The Intersection of Museums and Tourism 79Russell Staiff 6. Museums, Human Rights, and Universalism Reconsidered 93Jennifer Barrett 7. The Democratic Horizons of the Museum: Citizenship and Culture 117Peter Dahlgren and Joke Hermes 8. Museums, Ecology, Citizenship 139Toby Miller Part II Disciplines and Politics 157 9. Reflexive Museology: Lost and Found 159Shelley Ruth Butler 10. The Art of Anthropology: Questioning Contemporary Art in Ethnographic Display 183Haidy Geismar 11. Change and Continuity: Art Museums and the Reproduction of Art‐Museumness 211Ien Ang 12. Cool Art on Display: The Saatchi Phenomenon 233Jim McGuigan 13. Contentious Politics and Museums as Contact Zones 253Kylie Message 14. Emotions in the History Museum 283Sheila Watson 15. The Presence of the Past: Imagination and Affect in the Museu do Oriente, Portugal 303Elsa Peralta 16. Toward a Pedagogy of Feeling: Understanding How Museums Create a Space for Cross‐Cultural Encounters 321Andrea Witcomb 17. The Liquid Museum: New Institutional Ontologies for a Complex, Uncertain World 345Fiona Cameron Part III Theory from Practice/Practicing Theory 363 18. The Displaced Local: Multiple Agency in the Building of Museums’ Ethnographic Collections 365Howard Morphy 19. The World as Collected; or, Museum Collections as Situated Materialities 389Fredrik Svanberg 20. Ambient Aesthetics: Altered Subjectivities in the New Museum 417Natalia Radywyl, Amelia Barikin, Nikos Papastergiadis, and Scott McQuire 21. Museum Encounters and Narrative Engagements 437Philipp Schorch 22. Theorizing Museum and Heritage Visiting 459Laurajane Smith 23. The Museum in Hiding: Framing Conflict 485Amelia Barikin, Lyndell Brown, and Charles Green 24. Preserving/Shaping/Creating: Museums and Public Memory in a Time of Loss 511James B. Gardner 25. Sites of Trauma: Contemporary Collecting and Natural Disaster 531Liza Dale‐Hallett, Rebecca Carland, and Peg Fraser Index 553
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John Wiley & Sons FeminismsMuseumsSurveys An Anthology
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WW Norton & Co Botticellis Secret
Book SynopsisA Guardian Book of the Day A true historical detective story full of insight about how we look at artand the artists and eras that produced itTrade Review"A fresh account of the Renaissance… [an] elegant exploration" -- Kathryn Hughes - The Guardian"Botticelli’s Secret’ brilliantly sets the operatic stage of vibrant, violent Renaissance Florence and brings to life the characters who helped resurrect Botticelli in the 19th and 20th centuries..." -- Max Norman - The Wall Street Journal"In this wide-ranging history, Luzzi considers why the drawings, which illustrated eighty-eight cantos of Dante’s Divine Comedy, had fallen into oblivion, and charts both Dante’s and Botticelli’s reputations across the ages." -- New Yorker"The Italian Renaissance has rarely been so brilliantly examined or put before us in such a delectable style. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves art, who enjoys good storytelling, who is interested in how the human spirit rediscovered itself in such a magnificent and dramatic fashion." -- Jay Parini, author of Borges and Me"I love everything Joseph Luzzi writes, and this might be his best book yet. As always, it’s full of his intimate and personal insights into the masters and masterpieces of Renaissance Italy, told with his unique blend of scholarship and superb storytelling—all in the service of a wonderful portrait of Florence from Dante to Botticelli and beyond." -- Ross King, author of Leonardo and the Last Supper
£21.84
John Wiley and Sons Ltd SixteenthCentury Italian Art
Book SynopsisSixteenth-Century Italian Art is a first-rate collection of the major classic and contemporary writings on the Italian Renaissance. Taking a thematic approach, the book exemplifies the traditional concerns of the field and presents arguments in a clear, accessible way. A stellar collection of 23 classic and recent essays on the art and architecture of this fascinating period in art history Brings together in a single volume, important literature on sixteenth-century Italian art from the last half century, highlighting major topics of recent art historical studies Introduces major topics and debates in the field, including pagan mysteries, nature and artifice, the art of the body, and reformations of art, theory and practice Includes new translations of texts never previously published in English Organized thematically, and features substantial editorial introduTrade Review“This valuable book offers an excellent balance of articles on the major themes and methods found in the Italian Renaissance. -- Highly recommended” – CHOICE, March 2007Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Series Editor’s Preface. Introduction: Michael W. Cole. Part I: Pagan Mysteries. Introduction. 1. Raphael’s Tomb: Tilmann Buddensieg. 2. St. Peter’s as Ruins: On some views by Heemskerck: Christof Thoenes. 3. “Virtue Reconciled with Pleasure,” from Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance: Edgar Wind. 4. Love's Sweet Poison: A New Reading of Bronzino's London Allegory: Robert W. Gaston. Part II: Nature and Artifice. Introduction. 5. Science and the Poetic Impulse: Martin Kemp. 6. Mannerist Grottos in 16th-century Italy: Philippe Morel. 7. Imitation, Innovation, and Renovation in the Counter-Reformation: Landscapes all’antica in the Vatican Tower of the Winds: Nicola Courtright. 8. Landscape and Still-Life,” from Federico Borromeo and the Ambrosiana: Art Patronage and Reform in Seventeenth-Century Milan: Pamela Jones. Part III: Figures and Bodies. Introduction. 9. Preparing to Finish: Portraits by Pontormo and Bronzino around 1530: Elizabeth Cropper. 10. The Mistress in the Masterpiece: Nancy J. Vickers. 11. Michelangelo’s Florentine Pietà: The Missing Leg: Leo Steinberg. 12. Reclining Bodies: Figural Ornament in Renaissance Architecture: Alina Payne. Part IV: The Artist. Introduction. 13. The New Professionalism in the Renaissance: Catherine Wilkinson. 14. On Some Engravings by Giorgio Ghisi Commonly Called “Reproductive”: Michael Bury. 15. The Historian and technique: On the role of goldsmithery in Vasari’s Lives:. Marco Collareta. Part V: Reformations. Introduction. 16. Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna: Charles De Tolnay. 17. Gifts for Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna: Alexander Nagel. 18. The Carracci and the Devout Style in Emilia: Charles Dempsey. 19. The Gesù in Light of Contemporary Church Design: James Ackerman. Part VI: Theory and Practice. Introduction. 20. Leonardo’s Color and Chiaroscuro: John Shearman. 21. The Subject of Savoldo's Magdalene: Mary Pardo. 22. Figure come fratelli: A Transformation of Symmetry in Italian Renaissance Painting: David Summers. 23. Raphael, Angelo Colocci, and the Genesis of the Architectural Orders: Ingrid D. Rowland. Index.
£110.15
John Wiley and Sons Ltd SixteenthCentury Italian Art
Book SynopsisSixteenth-Century Italian Art is a first-rate collection of the major classic and contemporary writings on the Italian Renaissance. Taking a thematic approach, the book exemplifies the traditional concerns of the field and presents arguments in a clear, accessible way. A stellar collection of 23 classic and recent essays on the art and architecture of this fascinating period in art history Brings together in a single volume, important literature on sixteenth-century Italian art from the last half century, highlighting major topics of recent art historical studies Introduces major topics and debates in the field, including pagan mysteries, nature and artifice, the art of the body, and reformations of art, theory and practice Includes new translations of texts never previously published in English Organized thematically, and features substantial editorial introduTrade Review“This valuable book offers an excellent balance of articles on the major themes and methods found in the Italian Renaissance. -- Highly recommended” – CHOICE, March 2007Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Series Editor’s Preface. Introduction: Michael W. Cole. Part I: Pagan Mysteries. Introduction. 1. Raphael’s Tomb: Tilmann Buddensieg. 2. St. Peter’s as Ruins: On some views by Heemskerck: Christof Thoenes. 3. “Virtue Reconciled with Pleasure,” from Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance: Edgar Wind. 4. Love's Sweet Poison: A New Reading of Bronzino's London Allegory: Robert W. Gaston. Part II: Nature and Artifice. Introduction. 5. Science and the Poetic Impulse: Martin Kemp. 6. Mannerist Grottos in 16th-century Italy: Philippe Morel. 7. Imitation, Innovation, and Renovation in the Counter-Reformation: Landscapes all’antica in the Vatican Tower of the Winds: Nicola Courtright. 8. Landscape and Still-Life,” from Federico Borromeo and the Ambrosiana: Art Patronage and Reform in Seventeenth-Century Milan: Pamela Jones. Part III: Figures and Bodies. Introduction. 9. Preparing to Finish: Portraits by Pontormo and Bronzino around 1530: Elizabeth Cropper. 10. The Mistress in the Masterpiece: Nancy J. Vickers. 11. Michelangelo’s Florentine Pietà: The Missing Leg: Leo Steinberg. 12. Reclining Bodies: Figural Ornament in Renaissance Architecture: Alina Payne. Part IV: The Artist. Introduction. 13. The New Professionalism in the Renaissance: Catherine Wilkinson. 14. On Some Engravings by Giorgio Ghisi Commonly Called “Reproductive”: Michael Bury. 15. The Historian and technique: On the role of goldsmithery in Vasari’s Lives:. Marco Collareta. Part V: Reformations. Introduction. 16. Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna: Charles De Tolnay. 17. Gifts for Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna: Alexander Nagel. 18. The Carracci and the Devout Style in Emilia: Charles Dempsey. 19. The Gesù in Light of Contemporary Church Design: James Ackerman. Part VI: Theory and Practice. Introduction. 20. Leonardo’s Color and Chiaroscuro: John Shearman. 21. The Subject of Savoldo's Magdalene: Mary Pardo. 22. Figure come fratelli: A Transformation of Symmetry in Italian Renaissance Painting: David Summers. 23. Raphael, Angelo Colocci, and the Genesis of the Architectural Orders: Ingrid D. Rowland. Index.
£46.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Envisioning the Past
Book SynopsisEnvisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that brings together archaeologists, art historians and anthropologists to provide new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man. Covers a wide variety of time periods and topics, from the Renaissance and the 18th century to the engravings, photography, and virtual realities of today Questions what we can learn from considering the use of images in the past and present that might guide our responsible use of them in the future Available within the prestigious New Interventions in Art History series, published in connection with the Association of Art Historians. Trade Review"I recommend this book to anyone interested in the relationship between archaeology and 'the image', and particularly point to the contributions by Glazier, Scott, Phillips and Arnold." Cultural Studies “Envisioning the Past dissects a range of visual reconstructions of antiquity to expose conventions so widely accepted that their distorting effect has become all but invisible. The reader undergoes a process of re-sensitization that is eye-opening in the most literal sense.” Arthur MacGregor, Ashmolean Museum, University of OxfordTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Introduction: The Image in Question: Stephanie Moser (University of Southampton) and Sam Smiles (University of Plymouth). 1 Romancing the Human: The Ideology of Envisioned Human Origins: Paul Privateer (Arizona State University). 2 “We Grew Up and Moved On”: Visitors to British Museums Consider Their “Cradle of Mankind”: Monique Scott (Yale University). 3 The American Time Machine: Indians and the Visualization of Ancient Europe: Stephanie Pratt (University of Plymouth). 4 “To Make the Dry Bones Live”: Amédée Forestier’s Glastonbury Lake Village: James E. Phillips (University of Southampton). 5 Unlearning the Images of Archaeology: Dana Arnold (University of Southampton). 6 Illustrating Ancient Rome, or the Ichnographia as Uchronia and other time warps in Piranesi’s Il Campo Marzio: Susan M. Dixon (University of Tulsa). 7 Thomas Guest and Paul Nash in Wiltshire: two episodes in the artistic approach to British antiquity: Sam Smiles (University of Plymouth). 8 A Different Way of Seeing? Toward a Visual Analysis of Archaeological Folklore: Darren Glazier (University of Southampton). 9 Photography and Archaeology: The Image as Object: Fred Bohrer (Hood College). 10 Wearing Juninho’s Shirt: Record and Negotiation in Excavation Photographs: Jonathan Bateman (University of Sheffield). 11 Video Killed Interpretative VR: Computer Visualisations on the TV Screen: Graeme P. Earl (University of Southampton). 12 The Real, the Virtually Real and the Hyperreal: The Role of VR in Archaeology: Mark Gillings (University of Leicester). Index
£100.76
John Wiley and Sons Ltd PostImpressionism to World War II
Book SynopsisPost-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of the best art history writings of the Post-Impressionist period. Several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger knit together primary sources and classic, canonical criticism. Collects the most important writings on art history from Post-Impressionism to the mid-20th century, covering both canonical and contemporary perspectives Offers a chronicle of avant-garde practice during an especially creative, if volatile, period of history Features several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger Includes recent critical interventions from a range of methodological perspectives both well-known and less familiar Organizes material thematically, and features introductory essays to each of the five sections Provides a valuable, stimulating resource Trade Review"This is a neat little collection of textual sources that will prove invaluable to students and teachers of high modernism. Debbie Lewer has done an excellent job in editing an exemplary selection of texts from the familiar to the obscure... This anthology represents the first book to be published as part of a new series: the Blackwell Anthologies in Art History. These books will provide overviews of major periods in art history. If they are all of this consistent quality then this will prove to be an excellent and invaluable series." The Art Book “Post-Impressionism to World War II is a skillfully selected anthology of texts on art history and theory which will be of great value to undergraduate and graduate students of art history and cultural theory.” Andrew Causey, University of Manchester “At the heart of Debbie Lewer’s selection of texts lies a powerful sense ofthe way modern art intersected with broader political and cultural debates.This will prove to be an inspiring and enduring resource for students oftwentieth-century art.” David Hopkins, University of Glasgow “This is an invaluable collection of the texts that set the terms for and responded to the modernist projects of the twentieth century, supported by clear, nuanced editorial essays situating them within a range of critical understandings.” Elizabeth Legge, University of Toronto Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface. Preface. Acknowledgments.. Part I: Programs and Manifestos. . Introduction. 1 Post-Impressionism (Roger Fry). 2 Why are we publishing a journal (Ver Sacrum editorial). 3 Notes of a Painter (Henri Matisse). 4 The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism (F.T. Marinetti). 5 Dada Manifesto (Hugo Ball). 6 The Work Ahead of Us (Vladimir Tatlin). 7 First Manifesto of Surrealism (André Breton). 8 Introduction to ‘New Objectivity’: German Painting since Expressionism (Gustav Hartlaub). Part II: Spirit and Subjectivity. Introduction. 9 Gustave Moreau (Joris-Karl Huysmans). 10 Symbolism in Painting: Paul Gauguin (G.-Albert Aurier). 11 from Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style (Wilhelm Worringer). 12 from Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Wassily Kandinsky). 13 Mystery and Creation (Giorgio de Chirico). 14 From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Painterly Realism (Kazimir Malevich). 15 Neo-Plasticism: The General Principle of Plastic Equivalence (Piet Mondrian). Part III: Mass Culture and Modernity. Introduction. 16 The Mass Ornament (Siegfried Kracauer). 17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (Walter Benjamin). 18 Avant-Garde and Kitsch (Clement Greenberg). 19 Modernism in the Work of Art (Victor Burgin). 20 The Hidden Dialectic: Avantgarde - Technology - Mass Culture (Andreas Huyssen). Part IV: Politics and the Avant-Garde. Introduction. 21 The Politics of the Avant-Garde (Raymond Williams). 22 from Theory of the Avant-Garde (Peter Bürger). 23 Jugglers’ Fair Beneath the Gallows (Ernst Bloch). 24 Towards a Free Revolutionary Art (André Breton, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky). 25 The Birth of Socialist Realism from the Spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde (Boris Groys). Part V: Identity and Appropriation. Introduction. 26 Going Native (Abigail Solomon-Godeau). 27 Virility and Domination in 20th-Century Vanguard Painting (Carol Duncan). 28 from Men’s Work? Masculinity and Modernism (Lisa Tickner). 29 What the Papers Say: Politics and Ideology in Picasso’s Collages of 1912 (David Cottington). 30 "Dada as ‘Buffoonery and Requiem At the Same Time’" (Hanne Bergius). 31 Surrealism: Fetishism’s Job (Dawn Ades). Index.
£44.60
John Wiley and Sons Ltd PostImpressionism to World War II
Book SynopsisPost-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of the best art history writings of the Post-Impressionist period. Several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger knit together primary sources and classic, canonical criticism. Collects the most important writings on art history from Post-Impressionism to the mid-20th century, covering both canonical and contemporary perspectives Offers a chronicle of avant-garde practice during an especially creative, if volatile, period of history Features several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger Includes recent critical interventions from a range of methodological perspectives both well-known and less familiar Organizes material thematically, and features introductory essays to each of the five sections Provides a valuable, stimulating resource Trade Review"This is a neat little collection of textual sources that will prove invaluable to students and teachers of high modernism. Debbie Lewer has done an excellent job in editing an exemplary selection of texts from the familiar to the obscure... This anthology represents the first book to be published as part of a new series: the Blackwell Anthologies in Art History. These books will provide overviews of major periods in art history. If they are all of this consistent quality then this will prove to be an excellent and invaluable series." The Art Book “Post-Impressionism to World War II is a skillfully selected anthology of texts on art history and theory which will be of great value to undergraduate and graduate students of art history and cultural theory.” Andrew Causey, University of Manchester “At the heart of Debbie Lewer’s selection of texts lies a powerful sense ofthe way modern art intersected with broader political and cultural debates.This will prove to be an inspiring and enduring resource for students oftwentieth-century art.” David Hopkins, University of Glasgow “This is an invaluable collection of the texts that set the terms for and responded to the modernist projects of the twentieth century, supported by clear, nuanced editorial essays situating them within a range of critical understandings.” Elizabeth Legge, University of Toronto Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface. Preface. Acknowledgments.. Part I: Programs and Manifestos. . Introduction. 1 Post-Impressionism (Roger Fry). 2 Why are we publishing a journal (Ver Sacrum editorial). 3 Notes of a Painter (Henri Matisse). 4 The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism (F.T. Marinetti). 5 Dada Manifesto (Hugo Ball). 6 The Work Ahead of Us (Vladimir Tatlin). 7 First Manifesto of Surrealism (André Breton). 8 Introduction to ‘New Objectivity’: German Painting since Expressionism (Gustav Hartlaub). Part II: Spirit and Subjectivity. Introduction. 9 Gustave Moreau (Joris-Karl Huysmans). 10 Symbolism in Painting: Paul Gauguin (G.-Albert Aurier). 11 from Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style (Wilhelm Worringer). 12 from Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Wassily Kandinsky). 13 Mystery and Creation (Giorgio de Chirico). 14 From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Painterly Realism (Kazimir Malevich). 15 Neo-Plasticism: The General Principle of Plastic Equivalence (Piet Mondrian). Part III: Mass Culture and Modernity. Introduction. 16 The Mass Ornament (Siegfried Kracauer). 17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (Walter Benjamin). 18 Avant-Garde and Kitsch (Clement Greenberg). 19 Modernism in the Work of Art (Victor Burgin). 20 The Hidden Dialectic: Avantgarde - Technology - Mass Culture (Andreas Huyssen). Part IV: Politics and the Avant-Garde. Introduction. 21 The Politics of the Avant-Garde (Raymond Williams). 22 from Theory of the Avant-Garde (Peter Bürger). 23 Jugglers’ Fair Beneath the Gallows (Ernst Bloch). 24 Towards a Free Revolutionary Art (André Breton, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky). 25 The Birth of Socialist Realism from the Spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde (Boris Groys). Part V: Identity and Appropriation. Introduction. 26 Going Native (Abigail Solomon-Godeau). 27 Virility and Domination in 20th-Century Vanguard Painting (Carol Duncan). 28 from Men’s Work? Masculinity and Modernism (Lisa Tickner). 29 What the Papers Say: Politics and Ideology in Picasso’s Collages of 1912 (David Cottington). 30 "Dada as ‘Buffoonery and Requiem At the Same Time’" (Hanne Bergius). 31 Surrealism: Fetishism’s Job (Dawn Ades). Index.
£104.36
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Late Antique and Medieval Art of the
Book Synopsis* A comprehensive anthology offering a new approach to the visual arts classified as Early Christian-Byzantine. * Comprised of essays from experts in the field that integrate the newer, historiographical research into 'the canon' of established scholarship.Trade Review"Blackwell Publishing are to be congratulated on their decision to revive he scholarly anthology of which the present book is a splendid example." (International Review of Biblical Studies, 2007-2008)Table of ContentsList of Contributors. List of Illustrations. Series Editor’s Preface. Editor’s Acknowledgments. Acknowledgments to Sources. Introduction: Remapping the Art of the Mediterranean. Part I: Late Antiquity: Converging Cultures, Competing Traditions. Pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Sasanian Art. 1. The Changing Nature of Roman Art and the Art-Historical Problem of Style: Jás Elsner. 2. Good and Bad Images from the Synagogue of Dura Europos: Contexts, Subtexts, Intertexts: Annabel Jane Wharton. 3. Exotic Taste: The Lure of Sasanian Persia: Anna Gonosová. 4. Dionysiac Motifs: Richard Ettinghausen. Part II: Continuities: Tradition and Formation of Cultural Identities. 5. The Good Life: Henry Maguire. 6. Hellenism and Islam: G. W. Bowersock. 7. The Draped Universe of Islam: Lisa Golombek. Part III: Image and Word: Early Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic Art. 8. The Beginnings of Biblical Illustration: John Lowden. 9 Sacred Image, Sacred Power: Gary Vikan. 10. The Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem: Oleg Grabar. 11. The Image of the Word: Notes on the Religious Iconography of Islam: Erica. Cruikshank Dodd. 12. Islam, Iconoclasm, and the Declaration of Doctrine: G. R. D. King. Part IV: Local Syncretistic Traditions: Jews, Muslims, and Christians. 13. Hebrew Book Illumination in the Fatimid Era: Rachel Milstein. 14. An Icon at Mt. Sinai and Christian Painting in Muslim Egypt during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Robert S. Nelson. Part V: Luxury Arts and the Representation of the Court. 15. The Cup of San Marco and the “Classical” in Byzantium: Ioli Kalavrezou. 16. Images of the Court: Henry Maguire. 17. But Is It Art?: Robin Cormack. Part VI: Expanding Boundaries: Spain, Sicily, Venice, and Beyond. 18. Pathways of Portability: Islamic and Christian Interchange from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century: Eva R. Hoffman. 19. Islam, Christianity, and the Problem of Religious Art: Jerrilyn D. Dodds. 20. The Medieval Object-Enigma, and the Problem of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: William Tronzo. 21. Venice and Islam in the Middle Ages: Some Observations on the Question of Architectural Influence: Deborah Howard. Index
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